Words Written: AETW: 548

I’ve always believed that everything a writer reads, hears, and experiences is part of the writing process. You never know when something will spark an idea, appear in a story, combine with another idea…

Today I discovered I can apply a similar philosophy to reading Publisher’s Lunch (primarily a fiction publishing resource for me) at work—I found a relevant article about the future of textbooks.

See? I really was working!

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In other news, Ken’s leaving for Portland at o’dark thirty Saturday for a little less than a week. He’s been waiting for the company up there to schedule when he needs to come up, and they gave him two days’ warning. Ah well. It’s good that they finally scheduled it. This will be the first part of the job; at some point in the next couple months, he’ll be going up there for a month.

And he will make about as much as I will make in a year.

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Apropos of nothing else, before I left work today, my bosses and I had a conversation about which “Gilligan’s Island” character fits which of the Seven Deadly Sins…

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Got my payment for my Fishnetmag story, which is spiff. Nice to get it on the same day the story goes live.

Got a little done on AETW. It’s hard to write about someone who’s enraged and fears for the life of his child when you’re tired. But it moved forward, and that’s a very good thing. The new stuff will definitely make the book richer.

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Currently Reading: Double-Blind (BattleTech), Loren L. Coleman; War at Home, Kris Nelscott (Kristine Kathryn Rusch writing in her award-winning mystery series)

Lately Listened To: RWA CDs

Recently Watched: “CSI: NY”